The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems by "Q" by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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_Cras amet qui nunquam amavit; quique amavit cras amet_. Ver novum, ver jam canorurn, vere natus orbis est; Vere concordant amores, vere nubunt alites, Et nemus comam resolvit de maritis imbribus. Cras amorum copulatrix inter umbras arborum 5 Inplicat casas virentes de flagello myrteo: Cras Dione jura dicit fulta sublimi throno. _Cras amet qui nunquam amavit; quique amavit cras amet_. _To-morrow--What news of to-morrow? Now learn ye to love who loved never--now ye who have loved, love anew_! It is Spring, it is chorussing Spring; 'tis the birthday of Earth, and for you! It is Spring; and the Loves and the birds wing together and woo to accord Where the bough to the rain has unbraided her locks as a bride to her lord. For she walks--she our Lady, our Mistress of Wedlock--the woodlands atween, 5 And the bride-bed she weaves them, with myrtle enlacing, with curtains of green. Look aloft! list the law of Dione, sublime and enthroned in the blue: _Now learn ye to love who loved never--now ye who have loved, love anew_! Tunc liquore de superno spumeo et ponti globo, Cærulas inter catervas, inter et bipedes equos, 10 Fecit undantem Dionen de maritis imbribus. _Cras amet qui nunquam amavit; quiqiie amavit cras amet_. Ipsa gemmis purpurantem pingit annum floribus, |
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